NPR Faces Defunding After Fake Hegseth News – Updated

According to an unreliable NPR report, the White House is considering replacing Pete Hegseth following an alleged second Signal Chat leak. It was another anonymous report.

Yawn!

The NPR article then criticized the Secretary from a Democratic viewpoint, with no comments from Secretary Hegseth, his office, or the White House.

Why do taxpayers fund NPR? Well, maybe we won’t for too much longer.

According to RSBN, they face potential defunding due to their publication of a fake news story.

The New York Times added to the story by reporting that Hegseth also shared details about the Yemen strikes in a different private Signal chat with his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, his younger brother, Phil Hegseth, and his personal lawyer.

Fake News

The White House on Monday blasted the NPR report that a search was underway for a new Pentagon chief as “fake news” following new reporting about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal app and criticism from former Pentagon officials.

“This ⁦@NPR⁩ story is total FAKE NEWS based on one anonymous source who clearly has no idea what they are talking about. As the President said this morning, he stands strongly behind ⁦@SecDef⁩,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social platform X.

“This NPR story is total fake news based on one anonymous source who clearly has no idea what they are talking about,” Leavitt said. “As the President said this morning, he stands strongly behind @SecDef.”

“WRONG. Fake News!” the Trump administration’s X account Rapid Response 47 said in a tweet on Monday.

“Lies from NPR — which, as we all know, is a Fake News propaganda machine,” the account added in another post.

According to NBC News, which has allegedly received more leaks from three anonymous sources. Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla sent Hegseth the ‘sensitive’ information over a secure system. According to the latest leak, Hegseth shared some of the information in the Signal chat group.

It doesn’t matter if it came from a General or King Kong.

NBC News reported:

Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands, put the pilots of those fighters in grave danger. But he was doing exactly what he was supposed to: providing Hegseth, his superior, with information he needed to know and using a system specifically designed to safely transmit sensitive and classified information.

But then Hegseth used his personal phone to send some of the same information Kurilla had given him to at least two group text chats on the Signal messaging app, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges told NBC News.

This all centers around one event at the same time, and if it’s even true, no harm came of it. It’s not as if he destroyed Afghanistan like the previous administration. If there is any truth to it, we doubt Pete Hegseth will ever make the mistake again.

The media only does this to officials they don’t like. They didn’t do it to Gen. Austin, even though he more than deserved it for Afghanistan and his unexplained disappearance without notice. The media didn’t speculate or develop fake news about his firing. Their interest isn’t about national security. It’s about getting rid of Trump’s Cabinet. Trump’s not playing the game, nor is Pete Hegseth.

This article was updated with the news of the NBC link after publication.

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